Dr. Mark Long

Degrees BA, cum laude, English Literature, Ithaca College; MA English Literature, University of Washington; PhD English Literature, University of Washington

Professional Interests and Expertise American literature and culture, poetry and poetics, the environmental arts and humanities, nonfiction and digital writing, open and digital pedagogy, pedagogy and curriculum development, the teaching of writing

Awards Honorary Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Graduate Mentoring Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Keene State College Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Enduring Questions Grant

Teaching Appointments Professor Emeritus, Department of English; Professor, Department of English; Core Faculty, American Studies Program; Affiliate Faculty, Environmental Studies Program. In addition to twenty-three years teaching English, American, and Environmental Studies at Keene State College Mark has taught at the University of Washington, Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Washington and Lee University.

Professional Profile A senior academic generalist with intellectual expertise in American literature, poetry and poetics, writing studies, and the environmental humanities, Mark has delivered hundreds of conference presentations and published over fifty essays, book chapters, and reviews—including two co-edited books, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2018) and Teaching North American Environmental Literature (2008), as well as reference essays in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, and the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to American Poetry.

Areas of Professional Expertise

• Teaching: designed and taught over twenty different courses in English, American Studies, and Environmental Studies––for majors and general education students, including first-year writing and cross-listed courses for students in the humanities and sciences

• Pedagogy and Approaches to Teaching: Author of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, eds. Mark C. Long and Sean Ross Meehan (MLA 2018) and Teaching North American Environmental Literature, eds. Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage (2008)

• Faculty and Curriculum Development: Co-founded and co-directed the Calderwood Institute for the Teaching of Writing, a program for faculty seeking to use writing effectively in the disciplines; co-founded and co-directed the Environmental Literature Institute at Phillips Exeter Academy for secondary-level educators; co-founded and co-directed the Davis Educational Foundation Keene State College Teaching Fellows project; co-founded ad co-directed KSCOpen, a Domain of One's Own initiative designed to empower students and faculty to use digital technologies and the world-wide web as a platform for creative expression, critical thinking, and integrative learning.

• Administrative Appointments: Director of the Integrative Studies Program (ISP); Chair of the Department of English; Chair of the American Studies program; Coordinator of first-year Thinking and Writing Program

• Curriculum and Program Consulting: external reviewer for Composition Program, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, New Hampshire; external reviewer for Department of English, SUNY Geneseo, New York; external reviewer for Department of English, College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho; invited consultant, with Gerry Francis, Executive Vice President, Elon College; invited consultant, Moving to Four-Credit Courses, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio; external reviewer for Environmental Studies Department, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

• Professional Leadership: President, William Carlos Williams Society; Vice President, William Carlos Williams Society; President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE); Vice President, ASLE; Chair and Member, MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities; Member, Executive Council, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Program Director, Mentoring Program, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

• Graduate Student and Faculty Mentoring: Coordinator of the ASLE Mentoring Program and Co-Founder of the Staying Alive Project, a faculty mentoring program dedicated to cultivating a life practice for academic people guided by the virtues of centeredness, wholeness, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, imagination and collaboration

• Editorial Activities (selected): Associate Editor, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; Editorial Advisory Board, IJE: Indian Journal of Ecocriticism; Editorial Advisory Board, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Developmental Editor, The Mountaineers Books, Seattle, Washington

• Editorial Projects (selected): Special Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review on Williams and West Coast Culture (forthcoming); Special issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture on the Small College Department, (2010); Guest Editor of special issue of Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy*, on Ecocriticism and the Practice of Reading (2005)

• Publications (Recent): "Post-Natural Modernism""Post-Natural Modernism" in A Companion to American Poetry (2022); "Close Reading at the End of Time"in Close Reading the Anthropocene (2021).

Personal: Mark joined the faculty at Keene State College in the fall of 1998. A once professional skateboarder, nationally-ranked nordic skier, and mountaineering guide, Mark is the father of two children and is married to Rebecca E. Todd, former General Counsel of Antioch University and currently the Executive Director of the Connecticut River Conservancy. Mark and Rebecca live and work on a 150 acre farm in the Connecticut River Valley.

To learn more about Mark professional activities visit his professional web site at http://thefarfield.org/.